How to display camera stream using Xamarin.Forms. Is it possible?

Question

So, I created an interface and implemented this interface in my Windows Phone 8 application to start the camera stream. For instance:

public void StartCamera()
{
      var cam = new Microsoft.Devices.PhotoCamera(Microsoft.Devices.CameraType.Primary);
      System.Windows.Controls.Canvas canvas = new System.Windows.Controls.Canvas();
      var videobrush = new System.Windows.Media.VideoBrush();
      canvas.Background = videobrush;
      videobrush.SetSource(cam);
}

so now the object canvasholds the camera stream. But how do I pass this back to Xamarin forms and show it.

In Xamarin Forms, I have:

IOperations camera = DependencyService.Get<IOperations>();
if (camera != null)
{
    camera.StartCamera();
}

and this works regardless of the fact that I can not control the flow of the camera. How to display this stream in Xamarin forms?

Answer 1

A new Custom Renderer example project is currently available:

http://developer.xamarin.com/samples/xamarin-forms/CustomRenderers/ContentPage/

:

https://developer.xamarin.com/guides/cross-platform/xamarin-forms/custom-renderer/contentpage/

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